There is a consensus that linguistic norms are codified products of social judgements concerning the particular human activity called “language”, while the fact is that those norms are not based on social judgements at all, but on the judgements of a bunch of “experts” that call themselves “linguists”.

“the process of standardisation of a language or groups of linguistic varieties does not introduce any new elements that would fundamentally modify the quality of that language and make it superior to the varieties”